we're kinda screwed

Pat Buchanan is a pig of a man, but I did read something interesting that he wrote: "If a nation's power fails to cover its commitments, its foreign policy is bankrupt. While the insolvency might not be revealed until a run on the bank, as at Pearl Harbor, it will be exposed."

He then lists all the places that we are mired in, from the Balkans to Taiwan to Antarctica (that's right, if somebody attacks the South Pole, we're in). Bottom line: the US has positioned itself to be involved in pretty much any future war, anywhere. And that's just great.